5 Key Areas to Focus On to Boost E-Commerce Conversions How can you increase the conversion rates on your e-commerce site? The question is simple but the answers often feel incredibly complicated. The options for boosting performance can seem endless and overwhelming—on most websites there are countless combinations of colors, words, buttons, images, and layouts that can be tinkered with to wring every last click out of visitors. Before you disappear into a black hole of never-ending tweaking, here are five tactics that truly increase click-throughs/purchases. 1. Why does Amazon place a product’s average star rating from consumers and the total number of reviews before other key pieces of information such as price and shipping? A Nielsen report from a few years ago found that 90% of consumers online trust recommendations from people they know, and 70% trust the opinions posted online by unknown users. 2. It cannot be stressed enough how much consumers care about shipping. 3. Why? Follow MDG Advertising and always be in the know. 4. 5. Google+
Untitled Page Not all of these are necessarily very unusual. Sometimes I pick them because they have unusual origins, or a little used secondary definition. Sometimes it's just a word that people know, but would be hard-pressed to exactly define. Okay, so there's now some cool words cobbled together into sentences. gallimaufry (gal-li-maw'-free) n. a hodgepodge, jumble; a mixture of diverse things [From French galimafrée "a stew, hash, ragout," from galer "to make merry" + mafrer "to eat heartily."] incondite (in-kon'-dite) adj. badly put together; crude. haptic (hap'-tick) adj. 1: relating to, or based on the sense of touch. 2: characterized by a predilection for the sense of touch. lacuna (lah-kyoon'-uh) n. 1: a blank space or a missing part; gap. 2: a small cavity, pit, or discontinuity in an anatomical structure. sidereal (sid-ear'-ee-ul) adj. of , relating to, or expressed in terms of stars or constellations; astral. risible turophile Scotch woodcock scion opprobrium paean brobdignagian abecedarian woodnote
Email Marketing Blog for Small Business Customize a responsive email template to match your brand. Here’s how to do it in just two minutes!… DesignCalls to Action: 50 that Sell and 10 that Repel → September 30th | by Lisa Furgison Eleganthack 9 Reasons Why Your Content Is Not Shared on Social Networks: New Research Do you wonder how to get your content seen amidst a sea of information? What if you could understand why your audience shares some information and not other? That would make your content stand out from the competition. The Science of Sharing 30 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook each month, including blog posts, links, news stories and photo albums. HubSpot’s Dan Zarrella has found that three things must happen to get your content shared. First, people must be exposed to your content (be a fan on Facebook or follow you on Twitter). Many articles have been written on how to increase your audience size and make people aware of your content, including these by Mari Smith and Denise Wakeman. The New York Times recently partnered with Latitude Research to unpack the psychology of sharing. #1: Your customers don’t trust you Stated plainly, people won’t share your content if they don’t find you or your content to be trustworthy. Notice the evolution in trust. #3: Your posts are boring
Fallacies Dr. Michael C. Labossiere, the author of a Macintosh tutorial named Fallacy Tutorial Pro 3.0, has kindly agreed to allow the text of his work to appear on the Nizkor site, as a Nizkor Feature. It remains © Copyright 1995 Michael C. Labossiere, with distribution restrictions -- please see our copyright notice. If you have questions or comments about this work, please direct them both to the Nizkor webmasters (webmaster@nizkor.org) and to Dr. Other sites that list and explain fallacies include: Constructing a Logical Argument Description of Fallacies In order to understand what a fallacy is, one must understand what an argument is. There are two main types of arguments: deductive and inductive. A fallacy is, very generally, an error in reasoning.
Email Marketing Campaigns – Getting Down to Basics | Business Email Marketing Software & Solutions - Activetrail.com ActiveTrail’s Postmaster Dept / Articles / Tag: Articles ActiveTrail’s email editor is considered the most advanced of its kind in the market. With drag-and-drop components, advanced image editor, social integration and dynamic content, anyone can build graphically rich and compel ... The world is constantly changing. With the arrival of the Internet and the Worldwide Web, creative new ideas, strengthened by ever changing technology, has been the greatest catalyst for all business. Remaining competitive in today’s market cannot be accomplished alone. Since their beginning, newsletters have played an important role in the marketing mix of all types of businesses, throughout the years. In this competitive global Internet market, we need to reach out and have a conversation with our recipients.
Email marketing versus social media - once more If we can believe the people of Email Delivered there is a “heated debate inside marketing circles” about what’s the best option when it comes to focusing your marketing efforts: social media or email marketing. Although I had promised myself not to rant anymore I can’t help but beg you to please refrain from this way of thinking. If there’s a heated debate going on inside marketing circles about these questions, I’m very happy that it’s not a debate in my marketing circles. With all due respect to Email Delivered and my apologies for jumping upon their blog post (spoiler alert: they do conclude there’s a place for both, certainly when “connected”) I would like to remind you of a few things. Email marketing: we’re doing fine First of all, I understand where such blog posts are coming in general. Thirdly, email marketing is doing very well, thank you. Living in harmony A message to email marketers who are still frustrated about “email is dead messages”: please wake up, you’re not alone.
Argumentation Home Welcome to the Argumentation Home Page. This is a website designed to give you information and examples to supplement the instruction you receive in class. The material for the web site was chosen not only to be helpful in your comprehension of the information, but also to aid in your research. Library tips, web site information, and links to interesting and useful web pages are also included. None of the work you will do here is graded nor will it be seen by your instructor. An argument is a set of statements in which a claim is made, support is offered for it, in an attempt to influence someone in a context of disagreement. Claim / Evidence / Reasoning If you have completed all three sections of this web site, please send us an email to: Evaluate The 334 Argumentation Web Site and, don't forget to check out Our Research Links
How a 3 Month Old Website Received 958,373 Visits from Google 254 Comments 6 minutes I receive a lot of emails from people who ask whether, with all of the competition online, it’s still possible to enter a niche right now and make money. Did you know that 20-25% of Google searches every single day are brand new? My Results I’m guessing the first thing you want to know is whether I’m just writing a sensational headline and have nothing of real value to share that you can apply to your own endeavours. Before I do that, here’s the screenshot you’re probably looking for: Sadly, I don’t see how I can prove the site was only 3 months old without revealing the domain. The exact keywords are going to be revealed in a short while, but first let me explain what it is that I’m doing. Thankfully, once I had this idea, I was able to leverage it for a nice monetary gain. How to Dominate Google in a Matter of Hours Do you know how 1 in 4 Google search queries are unique each day? Now you should be getting the idea. It doesn’t have to be TV or sports, either.
Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle (9780814705629): Richard Altick www.verveuk With businesses allocating more and more money at Content Marketing year upon year, it is important to get the most of out of your time. The SEO Experts at Verve have once again compiled a go-to list for you to reference when marketing your content. We have split this list into 4 categories for your easy consumption: Discovery ToolsVisual ToolsWriting ToolsDistribution Tools If you find it helpful, remember to share this with friends and colleagues. Discovery Tools 1. Buzzsumo gives you the ability to search for content that has been widely shared across social media sites such as, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+. It can also assist in finding any influential content curators within a specific field or niche and gather statistics on these industry influencers and their associated websites. Buzzsumo is a big favourite in the office for discovering great content and is also as inspiration for our content marketing at Verve. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Visual Tools 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Logic in Argumentative Writing Summary: This resource covers using logic within writing—logical vocabulary, logical fallacies, and other types of logos-based reasoning. Contributors:Ryan Weber, Allen BrizeeLast Edited: 2013-03-22 09:43:14 This handout is designed to help writers develop and use logical arguments in writing. Logic is a formal system of analysis that helps writers invent, demonstrate, and prove arguments. The most famous logical sequence, called the syllogism, was developed by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. Premise 1: All men are mortal. In this sequence, premise 2 is tested against premise 1 to reach the logical conclusion. This guide provides some vocabulary and strategies for determining logical conclusions.